__NOTOC__ Ernő Lendvai (6 February 1925 – 31 January 1993) was one of the first

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s to write on the appearance of the

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and

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and how these are implemented in Bartók's music. He also formulated the axis system,

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and

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. Lendvai was married to the pianist Erzsébet Tusa, and together they moved to

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in 1949 to run a local music school.

Selected works

In Hungarian

* Szimmetria a zenében (Kodály Intézet, 1994) * Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988) * Verdi és a 20. század: A Falstaff hangzás-dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó, 1984) * Polimodális kromatika (Kodály Zoltán Zenepedagógiai Intézet, 1980) * Bartók és Kodály harmóniavilága (Zeneműkiadó, 1975) * Bartók Dramaturgiája (Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, Budapest, 1964)

In German

* Bartók's Dichterische Welt (Akkord Music Publishers, 2001) *

In English

* * Bartók's Style (Akkord Music Publishers, 1999) * Verdi and Wagner (Bartók and the 19th century) (Kahn & Averill, 1988) * The workshop of Bartók and Kodály (Editio Musica, 1983) * Bartók and Kodály (Institute for Culture, 1980) * Symmetries of Music

Notes and references

20th-century Hungarian mathematicians Hungarian music educators Hungarian music theorists 1925 births 1993 deaths 20th-century musicologists Bartók scholars {{Hungary-scientist-stub